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Many problems with the current U.S. healthcare system have led some Americans to look into a universal health insurance program as an answer.

Canada is known for its socialized healthcare system. When, and how did it start? This article will trace those origins, and explain the five governing principles.

Company branding is key to reputation management and building a brand begins on the inside, boosting employee satisfaction and productivity with internal communications.

Read on the status of healthcare in San Francisco. Healthcare organizations are working hard to prevent illness and disease, but that may not be enough.

In Australia, the public healthcare system is known as Medicare. Australia's Medicare system provides healthcare to all citizens, not just the elderly and disabled.

Davis Liu, M.D. wrote Stay Healthy, Live Longer, Spend Wisely, Stetho Publishing, 2008 to help give Americans information so they can choose the best health care.

The sudden death of music legend Michael Jackson last June brought the issue of prescription drug abuse into the spotlight.

Bachelors who drink and smoke, live in the West, are unemployed, depressed, on disability and who don't go to church are more likely to use drugs, according to SAMHSA.

For Americans over age 50 on limited budgets who seek to cut costs by moving abroad, one big concern is access to adequate health care in a foreign nation.

Japan's vastly dissimilar approach to healthcare allows her to significantly control costs. What is so unique to her system when compared to America's?

Healthcare systems and hospitals are increasingly turning to green options, such as using efficient lighting, when renovating existing structures and building new sites.

The H1N1 influenza's (Swine flu's) worst effect is still to be seen in poor African countries with poor healthcare systems.

These two new books take a look at an under diagnosed eye problem and pitfalls and issues to avoid in the healthcare system to help you survive a serious illness

As millions of Americans go without health insurance, raising the costs of health care, several states have proposed reform, aiming to solve the uninsured problem.

The economy will play perhaps the largest part in the election on Nov. 4, 2008. Health care plays a huge part in the economy and well being of the U.S.

Rising American health care spending is considered unsustainable. What exactly compromises these costs?

Prescription drugs are the fastest growing component of health care expenditures. Many seniors have no Medicare prescription coverage and must pay out of pocket.

Congress takes a historic step forward to pass national healthcare coverage for all Americans, but GOP says wrong move!

A healthcare system that limits access for the poor and under-insured will be incapable of responding to a pandemic in a timely fashion.

Diabetes is now linked to Alzheimer’s disease and studies report that a person with Type 2 diabetes is twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s.

This cheat sheet will serve as a quick reference guide to facts about the health care debate to stay informed about the issue that pretty much everyone is talking about.

This question has been circulating around since the recent financial turmoil that has hit the average American and many would even laugh at the thought but is it true?

The powerful new concept of personalized medicine holds great promise for improving patient health, although its full potential has yet to be realized.

VCU's Steven Woolf, professor of family medicine, told the United Press International that the percentage of Americans living in severe poverty grew 20% from 2000 to 2004

The United Steelworkers union passed a resolution endorsing HR 676, "The U.S. National Health Insurance Act," at their annual convention in Las Vegas, Nevada on July 3.

Starting in 2007, the first Baby Boomers turned 60. Soon, 75 million United States citizens will face the inevitable health concerns inherent with aging.

As the world pays rapt attention to the health care debates in the United States of America, South Africa is on the precipice of monumental health care reform.

What do all the democrats stand for? Who should you vote for? This article outlines the similarities and differences between Clinton, Edwards and Obama.

The new project by the Academy Award-winning filmmaker is set for U.S. release on October 2 of this year, and will explore the global economic meltdown.

The antibiotic resistant bacteria MRSA has been featured in the media the last few years. Learn about what this bacteria is, what it does, and how to prevent its spread.

Infections in neonatal intensive care units prompt studies to determine the relationship between the length of fingernails and potential pathogens carried on them.

There are many aspects of the current United States healthcare system that can be improved. At the center of all these improvements is the ability to share information.

Although the elderly in our society are healthier than ever before, illness and its treatment in senior citizens requires special consideration.

Integrative medicine should be the future direction of all health care systems.

The benefits of Reiki are increasingly becoming accepted in hospitals in the US. Several hospitals now have Reiki therapists among their staff.

Solving the health care crisis in the U.S. is going to go a long way in helping to ease the economic crisis if consumers and practitioners listen.

With "Sicko", Michael Moore delivers a powerful documentary about the sad state of the U.S. health insurance industry. Time to move to Canada or France? Maybe...

"Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhuman" -Rev. Martin Luther King

Since the discovery of penicillin, bacteria have shown increasing resistance to treatment. Now, the future of the few options remaining are in question.

You see signs for chiropractors on every street corner and you've always wondered who they are and what they do. This article will answer your questions.

Have we learned from previous pandemics? How are strategies determined? What should individuals do to prepare?

The University of Southern California Davis School of Gerontology and other colleges are offering master's degrees on campus & online to address the needs of the aging.

A great romantic relationship involves knowing about the stages of love, fear of intimacy, & how to say I love you. Try these psychology articles about love and sex.

With much anxiety over avian flu last year, and now swine flu this year, it's helpful to know the lingo: what's an epidemic, what's a pandemic?

Healthcare reform plays a major role in discussions and the media today, but it is confusing, overwhelming, boring and seemingly unsolvable to most people.

Estimates are that between 600,000 and 800,000 patients receive long-term oxygen therapy in the US, according to 1990s data. Various delivery systems are available.

Get ready for the brave new world of personal service robots. Robots can be used to help elderly people stay healthy, and age at home.

Here is an interview with Dr. Franklin House, MD, in which he discusses diabetes mellitus, the Lifestyle Center of America, and his experiences with writing a book

One element of healthcare that warrants reform is job-lock. This phenomenon especially affects older workers (age 60 and over).